AKOOL Ranks #1 on Inc. Magazine's 2025 Inc. 5000 List

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- AKOOL, the leading AI video generation suite, today announced it has been named the #1 fastest-growing private company in America on Inc. Magazine's 2025 Inc. 5000 list. The ranking reflects AKOOL's exceptional growth trajectory since its founding and highlights its leading position in AI video technology.

The Inc. 5000 is the definitive ranking of the nation's most successful private companies, based on percentage revenue growth over a four-year period. Companies recognized have demonstrated innovation, resilience, and the ability to scale rapidly in competitive markets.

Since launch, AKOOL has transformed the content creation lifecycle — on-demand, live, and beyond — with an end-to-end AI video platform that combines hyper-realistic avatars, real-time lip-sync translation in 150+ languages, image-to-video, and on-device real time AI processing. The result: studio-quality video at scale, delivered instantly and privately, integrated seamlessly into creative and productivity tools like Adobe Premiere, Canva, Figma, Slack, Google Workspace, and HubSpot.

"Achieving the #1 rank on the Inc. 5000 is a testament to our team's dedication to pushing the boundaries of what's possible in AI video," said Jiajun (Jeff) Lu, CEO & Founder of AKOOL. "From our earliest prototype to today's enterprise-grade platform, AKOOL's ascent has been driven by fast pace innovation, studio-quality results at scale, a privacy-first foundation, and an unwavering focus on customer success."

AKOOL's #1 ranking on the Inc. 5000 follows a year of transformative milestones in 2025:

• Enterprise Integrations & Partnerships: Deepened collaborations with AWS and AMD to embed real-time AI avatars and on-device processing into their core platforms.
• Product Breakthroughs – Launched Akool Live Camera, the first real-time AI video tool with hyper-realistic lip-sync in 150+ languages; rolled out Image-to-Video to transform static visuals into cinematic sequences; and achieved major latency and realism gains in Edge AI performance.
• Global Reach – Expanded localization and avatar services to over 150 languages, allowing organizations to engage audiences instantly without costly reshoots.
• Recognition & Adoption – Honored with a Globee® Award for Innovation, ranked a Top AI Product by G2, and surpassed 300 million AI-generated assets for Fortune 500 clients.

These accomplishments underscore why AKOOL has claimed the top spot among America's fastest-growing private companies — and signal the company's momentum heading into its next phase of growth.

With the AI video market projected to grow exponentially in the next five years, AKOOL is building a complete video suite to empower every organization in the world to automate videos — just as Microsoft Office Suite empowers organizations to automate documents. Not just a creation tool, but the essential platform enabling every organization in the world to automate video the way Microsoft empowered organizations to automate documents, delivering the global infrastructure that powers living, interactive video across every industry.

"Video is becoming living, interactive content — not just a final product," Lu said. "We're building the platform that will power that shift, enabling every business to communicate in real time, in any language, with any audience."

About AKOOL
AKOOL is a complete AI Video Suite, transforming how professional video content is created. Our multimodal platform combines cutting-edge generation tools with enterprise-grade production infrastructure to deliver studio-quality results at scale. From hyper-realistic digital avatars to live face-swap, live video generation and real-time translation, AKOOL empowers remote teams, educators, and content creators worldwide.

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